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Kolea is clearly absolutely hosed in the next book. It appears to me that a demon is coming for him and his family, as the healing done on him "opened him up" to the warp. I didn't make the Necron connection, to tell the truth, but that does make a lot of sense. His daughter (Yoncy, of "are they a boy or a girl/nicely handled cover-up of that mistake, Dan) is now drawing creepy pictures, as well as being oddly ageless - showing as immature and below her years but clearly pretty intelligent. Could be a good arc. Abnett has even written in the pre-face to the story which reveals this particular bit that terrible things are going to happen to Kolea, and he even apologises to him ("I'm so, so sorry Gol" if I remember correctly), so the poor guy is screwed. There's also a 30 page short story out on the Black Library. £2.50 seems steep but I had to have it. Story below for anyone that wants to save the money. It follows Mkoll being hunted around the ship as they're in transit, training exercise. The hunter is the White Scar from the Salvation's Reach mission, and Mkoll outwits him and has him dead to rights. The White Scar then reveals that he outsmarted Mkoll, as the other two Marines roll in. Mkoll THEN reveals that no, he is the master, and that the floor underneath them is packed with explosives. "I'm expendable", he says - one guardsmen would be a great swap for three enemies. The Space Marines are then frustrated when he reveals they're not explosives and something harmless instead. It was an odd one but a nice easing back in before the inevitable horror show that Warmaster is going to be. I must say I am the biggest Gaunt's Ghosts fan on the planet (and even have a Christmas card from Dan Abnett he sent to me a few years back!) and I can't wait for The Warmaster. Might even buy the big fancy stupid-money set. I'd like to go on Mastermind and have the Ghosts books be my subject.
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Gooses and Geeses posted:Kolea is clearly absolutely hosed in the next book. Good post but I am actually the biggest Ghosthead (just made that up  )
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Nov 28, 2017 23:18
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Yeah but there's only one of us drinking from a Tanith First and Only mug right now. 
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Nov 28, 2017 23:22
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You doing try again's finest sacra or the promethium piss those flame troopers drink?
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Nov 28, 2017 23:31
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Dumb question - how is Arbites pronounced?
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Nov 28, 2017 23:39
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Shroud posted:Dumb question - how is Arbites pronounced? Pretty sure it's as it looks Arr-BITES.
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Nov 28, 2017 23:48
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Arr bee tez
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Nov 28, 2017 23:53
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Depends on how German you want to sound. It could sound like the German word arbeiter, which means worker; or you could go pseudo Latin and say ar-bit-eys
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Nov 29, 2017 00:02
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Biplane posted:Arr bee tez
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Nov 29, 2017 00:07
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People on YouTube love to pronounce it (incorrectly) as ar-BEE-tees.
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Nov 29, 2017 00:14
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Biplane posted:Arr bee tez It's this or something similar to it. High Gothic or whatever is basically just faux Latin so you just use the Latin rules for pronunciation. I'm not 100% sure about the second syllable- I usually pronounced it more like Ar-bit-eez but I'll confess I'm a little fuzzy on the fine details.
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Nov 29, 2017 00:19
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Arcsquad12 posted:They took heavy losses during Sabbat Martyr and were merged with a Belladon Recon regiment. The Tanith are dying out but the Verghastite and Belladon contingents do receive fresh reserve units following Only in Death, where 50% of the regiment became casualties at Hinzerhaus. Also I am literally wrapped up in my camo cloak now because it's warm and fleecy and I got Dan to sign the death notice in my Uplifting Primer one timeeeoh god why am I trying to win this slapfight?
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Nov 29, 2017 00:50
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Arquinsiel posted:"Casualties" are not the same thing as "deaths" though, so it's easy enough for Abnett to just say "it took two years to get all the augmetic kidneys installed" and have them keep on trucking. That's why I said casualties. Otherwise Shoggy would be extremely dead. They were still mauled so badly that they were no longer combat ready for a long rear end time.
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Nov 29, 2017 00:57
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Arcsquad12 posted:That's why I said casualties. Otherwise Shoggy would be extremely dead. They were still mauled so badly that they were no longer combat ready for a long rear end time.
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Nov 29, 2017 01:03
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I'm hoping that Macaroth dies at the end of the next book, only for Gaunt to take up the position he was always meant to.
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Nov 29, 2017 01:31
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wiegieman posted:I'm hoping that Macaroth dies at the end of the next book, only for
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Nov 29, 2017 01:49
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It is a tremendous tease that there are links to buy kindle versions of Black Library books, but when you click it says “this isn’t available in your country.” Please let me throw my money at you!
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Nov 29, 2017 02:06
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For some reason I haven't read Salvation's reach yet but looking on Ebay it's all $60-100 (AUD) and above and all the usual bookshops I get stuff from it's not available.. is this poo poo out of print already somehow?
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Nov 29, 2017 02:26
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Bang3r posted:For some reason I haven't read Salvation's reach yet but looking on Ebay it's all $60-100 (AUD) and above and all the usual bookshops I get stuff from it's not available.. is this poo poo out of print already somehow? GW doesn't keep books in print very long. Check Amazon for some cheap used copies. That's how I got most of my GG books.
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Is anybody else curious about what's going to happen on the Eldar front? Specifically with Yncarne, Yvraine and the last Crone Sword? Also, failing Yvraine's ability to birth Ynnead--I wonder if Eldrad or the other craftworld leaders took into account the possibility of an Incubus Tormentor poisoning their respective Infinity Circuits? EDIT: This also pairs well with the cryptic quote by Inquisitor Czevak, "Though I have seen within the Black Library and spoken to its most terrible guardian, I can never reveal what happened there; not to any man nor even the Emperor himself for I am so forsworn to powers beyond your knowledge. I can only say that a time of inconceivable horror is about to begin. A time when mankind with all the might of the Imperium cannot endure when the strength of the Eldar fails. Even now, our doom stalks us across the stars." Moose_Knuck fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Nov 29, 2017 |
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Nov 29, 2017 08:43
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I'm picking of a bunch of novels for christmas and want to make sure my list is complete. So far i have: Master of Mankind Carrion Throne Warmaster Which of the newer books are good that I'm missing?
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Nov 29, 2017 08:54
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my 40K group pronounces it "ARR-BITS" and it's driving me crazy 
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Nov 29, 2017 09:19
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Arquinsiel posted:"Casualties" are not the same thing as "deaths" though, so it's easy enough for Abnett to just say "it took two years to get all the augmetic kidneys installed" and have them keep on trucking. Rawne specifically mentions close to 50% KIA at the end of Only In Death when the Cadogus 50th or whoever show up as relief.
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Demiurge4 posted:I'm picking of a bunch of novels for christmas and want to make sure my list is complete. So far i have: The Devastation of Baal is great. Arquinsiel posted:Amazon still says the 14th Publishers with access to their own distribution platform (i.e. Black Library) with a book they think is going to be hot (i.e. Warmaster) will sometimes delay the Amazon/Kindle release so they can sell as much as possible on their own platform and not have to pay a third party a cut.
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Nov 29, 2017 11:43
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Demiurge4 posted:I'm picking of a bunch of novels for christmas and want to make sure my list is complete. So far i have: Watchers of the Throne.
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Nov 29, 2017 12:32
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Biplane posted:Rawne specifically mentions close to 50% KIA at the end of Only In Death when the Cadogus 50th or whoever show up as relief. Next year at Octocon I am sitting Dan down with the APP-6C charts and making him nail down just WTF a "mob" is.
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:It is a tremendous tease that there are links to buy kindle versions of Black Library books, but when you click it says “this isn’t available in your country.” Try a VPN.
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Deptfordx posted:The Devastation of Baal is great. I highly recommend reading Dante first since Devastation is very much a sequel. Eventually there is supposed to be a third as well.
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What is the sequence for the updated fluff: Dark Imperium Watchers of the throne Dante (is this the full title?) Devastation of Baal Is the stuff in the codecs available anywhere?
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notaspy posted:What is the sequence for the updated fluff: Dante is set before the new stuff. Devastation of Baal and Watchers of the Throne are sort if simultaneous, sort of not due to warp fuckery. Dark Imperium is set between 20-100 years later, again due to warp fuckery.
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Pendent posted:Dante is set before the new stuff. Devastation of Baal and Watchers of the Throne are sort if simultaneous, sort of not due to warp fuckery. Dark Imperium is set between 20-100 years later, again due to warp fuckery. Wicked, Ty I thought that the fight on the moon had primaris marines? Was that all detailed in the leadup codecs?
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Pendent posted:Dante is set before the new stuff. Devastation of Baal and Watchers of the Throne are sort if simultaneous, sort of not due to warp fuckery. Dark Imperium is set between 20-100 years later, again due to warp fuckery. They are super cheeky about it in dark imperium too, well this one calendar says its M42 buuuuut it might just still be M41.
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Zasze posted:They are super cheeky about it in dark imperium too, well this one calendar says its M42 buuuuut it might just still be M41. I was mostly thinking about The Devastation of Baal, which begins around the time Cadia falls, but ends with Guilliman showing up with the Indomitus Crusade something like 100 years later by the standards of the outside universe. That piece was definitely pretty funny though. I have a distinct memory of calendar related heresy which was one of the best things about an otherwise fairly mediocre book. notaspy posted:Wicked, Ty I am like 99% certain it didn't, because that fight was detailed in the Rise of the Primarch campaign (I think?) book and at that point we'd never heard anything about Primaris Marines aside from a single picture we mostly thought was a fake. The name of the book may be wrong but it was definitely in the 3rd Gathering Storm book.
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notaspy posted:Wicked, Ty The Battle of Luna just had your standard Astartes from the Imp Fists, Ultramarines, Fallen Dark Angels, and Legion of the Damned fighting against daemons and the Thousand Sons. Guilliman had yet to dispatch Cawl back to Mars and his stasis crypts to revive and equip the Primaris first generation. I mean, they were around and waiting, but their first deployment is explicitly during the Indomitus Crusade You may be thinking of how the Custodian Guard and Sisters of Silence burst back into existence during the battle?
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Arquinsiel posted:It's been a while. May as well get to re-reading again. A mob consists of 3-5 named characters and an indeterminate amount of cannon fodder
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Nov 29, 2017 19:07
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I've only listened to the watchers of the throne audiobook. It felt like there were bits missing, like it was half of an asoiaf book. The sisters of battle were awesome (or at least the protagonist was). I'm wanting to get up to speed with the "new" setting
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Arcsquad12 posted:A mob consists of 3-5 named characters and an indeterminate amount of cannon fodder
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Arquinsiel posted:The cannon fodder part is the bit I want determining. However many bodies it takes for the scene to appear over the top and depressing.
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Nov 30, 2017 00:48
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Which book is haunted Gol Kolea in? I know its a short story but I cant find it
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Sabbat Crusade, the anthology collection published last year. Not to be confused with the Sabbat Worlds anthology or the Sabbat Worlds Crusade guidebook which Black Library should have republished instead of simply including it in a special edition version of Sabbat Crusade that they only made 500 copies of.
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